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...addition to championing segregation, the two Jackson papers practice a boosterism that would make a Bab bitt blush. The Clarion-Ledger regularly runs a Page One color photo of a local maiden or matron gushing something like "It is patio time again." The Daily News runs a front-page cartoon of a donkey named Hinny who brays verse on behalf of some local cause: "It's the first night for football in the high schools of the state/ And ol' Hinny hopes each one'll win its game-won't that be great...
...foundering in mid-Atlantic, to give the feeling of the surging thousands with scarcely a hundred actors. To do this, he used 40 sets jammed into NBC's Brooklyn studio, making masterful use of his six cameras to combine action and symbolism; e.g., a rope spinning over a bitt was enough to suggest the lowering of a lifeboat. Seven sets-decks, staterooms, etc.-were built in duplicate, one set being shown "dry" for early scenes, the second set built to hold three feet of water for the sinking scenes...
...Cave." Bluff Ohioan Bab bitt seemed a mart out of his time. Causes were bursting all about him, and the only kind of conscience that seemed fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism...
...noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of thought has evidence that Mr. Bab bitt laughs as heartily at his own humbug-Aeries and homilies as does the sophisticate...
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